Dr. David Lavery
Professor of English & Popular Culture
Middle Tennessee State University
Dr. David Lavery
Late for the Sky:
The Mentality of
the Space Age.
Carbondale:
Southern Illinois
University Press,
1992.
Authored Book
Dr. David Lavery
Full of Secrets: Critical
Approaches to Twin
Peaks. Detroit, Wayne
State U P, 1994.
Edited Book
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Deny All Knowledge:
Reading The X-Files
(with Angela Hague
and Marla
Cartwright).
Syracuse: Syracuse
U P; London: Faber
and Faber, 1996.
Co-Edited Book
Dr. David Lavery
Fighting the
Forces: What’s at
Stake in Buffy the
Vampire Slayer
(edited with
Rhonda Wilcox).
Lanham, MD:
Rowman and
Littlefield, 2002.
Co-Edited Book
Dr. David Lavery
This Thing of Ours:
Investigating The
Sopranos. New York:
Columbia U P; London:
Wallflower Press, 2002.
Edited Book
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Teleparody:
Predicting/Preventing
the TV Discourse of
Tomorrow (with Angela
Hague). New York:
Columbia U P; London:
Wallflower Books, 2002.
Co-Edited Book
Dr. David Lavery
Reading
Deadwood: A
Western to Swear
By. London: I. B.
Tauris, 2006.
Edited Book
Dr. David Lavery
Reading The
Sopranos: Hit TV
from HBO.
London: I. B.
Tauris, 2006.
Edited Book
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Unlocking Lost: An
Unauthorized Guide
(with Lynnette
Porter). Napierville,
IL: Sourcebooks,
2006, 2007.
Co-authored Book
Dr. David Lavery
Seinfeld, Master of Its
Domain: Revisiting
Television’s Greatest
Sitcom (with Sarah
Lewis Dunne). New
York: Continuum, 2006.
Co-Edited Book
Dr. David Lavery
Saving the World:
A Guide to Heroes
(with Lynnette
Porter and Hillary
Robson). Toronto:
ECW Press, 2006.
Co-authored Book
Dr. David Lavery
Finding Battlestar
Galactica: An
Unauthorized Guide
(with Lynnette Porter
and Hillary Robson).
Napierville, IL:
Sourcebooks, 2008.
Co-authored Book
Dr. David Lavery
Lost’s Buried
Treasures:
Everything Lost Fans
Need to Know (with
Lynnette Porter and
Hillary Robson).
Napierville, IL:
Sourcebooks, 2007,
2008, 2009.
Co-authored Book
Dr. David Lavery
Dear Angela:
Remembering My
So-Called Life
(edited with
Michele Byers).
Lanham, MD:
Lexington Books,
2007.
Co-Edited Book
Dr. David Lavery
The Essential
Cult TV Reader
(University Press
of Kentucky,
2010).
Co-Edited Book
Dr. David Lavery
On the Verge of
Tears: Why the
Movies, Television,
Music, Art, and
Literature Make Us
Cry. Edited
Michele Byers and
David Lavery
(Cambridge
Scholars
Publishing, 2010).
Co-Edited Book
Dr. David Lavery
Screwball
Television:
Critical
Perspectives on
Gilmore Girls.
Ed. David Scott
Diffrient, with
David
Lavery(The
Television
Series, Syracuse
University Press,
2010).
Co-Edited Book
Dr. David Lavery
Joss Whedon:
Conversations. Ed.
David Lavery and
Cynthia Burkhead
(Television
Conversations,
University Press of
Mississippi, 2011).
Co-Edited Book
Dr. David Lavery
TV Goes to Hell: An
Unofficial Road
Map of
Supernatural, a
collection of essays
edited by Stacey
Abbott and David
Lavery (ECW Press,
2011).
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The Essential
Sopranos Reader,
with Doug
Howard & Paul
Levinson (U P
Kentucky, 2011).
Co-Edited Book
Dr. David Lavery
Joss Whedon, A
Creative Portrait:
From Buffy the
Vampire Slayer
to The Avengers
(forthcoming,
Fall 2012 from I.
B. Tauris)
Authored Book
Dr. David Lavery
Television Art, a textbook (under contract
with Blackwell Publishing).
Authored Book
Dr. David Lavery
Television Auteurs. A book and web
resource, edited by David Lavery (under
contract with the University Press of
Mississippi).
Dr. David Lavery
Finale: Considering the Ends
of Television Shows, co-edited
with David Bianculli (under
contract with Syracuse
University Press)
Dr. David Lavery
Unlocking Lost and Lost’s Buried Treasures
(in Portuguese, published in Brazil)
Co-authored Book
Dr. David Lavery
Kindle Book
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Kindle Book
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Kindle Book
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Kindle Book
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Kindle Book
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Owen Barfield: Man and Meaning,
co-produced and written with G.
B. Tennyson, UCLA; Ben Levin,
University of North Texas,
director and editor (1994).
Winner of the Bronze Award for
Independent Video at Worldfest
Houston (1996); Honorable
Mention recipient, Columbus
International Film and Video
Festival (1996). Screened at
Tennessee Philological
Association (1996); Owen
Barfield Centenary (1998); Rocky
Mountain Modern Language
Association (2000), Cornerstone
Arts Festival (2003).
Films
Books Contributed To
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Books Contributed To
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Dr. David Lavery
A book on Owen Barfield for the Western Esoteric Masters series (North
Atlantic Books).
“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (Modern American Drama on Screen,
ed. Robert Bray and R. Barton Palmer, forthcoming from Cambridge U P).
Work in Progress
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Founding Co-Editor, Co-Editor (2001- )
Journals
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Founding Co-Editor
Journals
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Founding Co-Editor
Journals
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Series Editor
Television Conversations
University Press of Mississippi (2010- )
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Conferences Convened
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Conferences Convened
An international Conference on LOST, held in conjunction
with the annual meeting of the Popular Culture
Association/American Culture Association, New Orleans,
October 2011.
Dr. David Lavery
Conferences Convened
Five Slayage Conferences
Dr. David Lavery
Keynotes
•“The Imagination will be Televised: Showrunning and the Re-animation of Authorship in 21st Century
American Television.” Keynote, REMEDIATE! Neue Langform-Narrative und Autorschaft, veränderte
Rezeptionsformen und Distributionsmedien bei TV-Serienformaten, Merz Academy, Stuttgart (January
2010).
• “Keeping the Faith: Joss Whedon’s ‘Religion in Narrative’ and Contemporary Television.” Keynote, Buffy
Hereafter: From the Whedonverse to the Whedonesque, Istanbul, Turkey (October 2007).
•"’Holy Fucking Shit’: Profanation, Parody, and Bleeping American Unreality in The Onion, The Daily
Show, and The Colbert Report.” Keynote, Giving and Taking Offence, University of Aveiro, Portugal
(June 2007).
•“’I Only Had a Week’: TV Creativity and Quality Television.” Invited Keynote Address: Contemporary
American Quality Television: An International Conference, Trinity College, Dublin (March 2004).
•“’I wrote my thesis on you!’ Buffy Studies as an Academic Cult.” Keynote address, Sonics/Synergies:
Creative Cultures. University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia (July 2003).
•“Dropping the Body: The X-Files, Popular Culture, and Exosomatic Evolution.” “Myths of Creativity:
Between Innovation and Hubris” symposium, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany (November
2001).
Dr. David Lavery
•television studies
•film studies
•cult television and film
•the creative process
•popular culture
•science fiction
•the grotesque
•the interrelations of the arts
•literary theory and criticism
•poetry and poetics
Major Areas of Teaching and Scholarship
Dr. David Lavery
•American Quality Television
•Buffy the Vampire Slayer
•Contemporary British Film (a course offered in London Summer 1992)
•Contemporary Cinema (graduate course)
•Cult Television (graduate module)
•Deadwood and The Sopranos (graduate seminar)
•Film and Television Genres (graduate course)
•Film History
•Film History Online
•Film Studies (Graduate Course)
•Film Theory and Criticism (honors section)
•Films of Stanley Kubrick
Film and Television Courses Taught
Dr. David Lavery
•Gangster Film (graduate/undergraduate course)
•Introduction to Film
•Ireland and Scotland at the Movies (taught on location in the British Isles,
Summer 1996)
•Joss Whedon: Television Auteur (graduate course)
•Literature and Film
•Lost (graduate course)
•Media Theory and Criticism (graduate course)
•Popular Literature of the 20th Century: The Movies (graduate course)
•Science Fiction Film (graduate course)
•Television and Culture
Film and Television Courses Taught
Dr. David Lavery
In recent years, one of my great pleasures has
been helping to further the work of others.
Three examples:
A colleague at another university had developed a
book on Northern Exposure but not succeeded in
securing a publisher. I was able to not only enhance
the quality (and quantity) of the essays contributed
but find a publisher—Critical Studies in Television—
which brought it out as a special issue.
Furthering the Work of Others
Dr. David Lavery
Furthering the Work of Others
Dr. David Lavery
On another occasion I was able to find a publisher for
an in-development book on the films of the Coen
Brothers for which I was a contributor. The collection
would appear as a special issue of Post Script:
Essays in Film and the Humanities.
Furthering the Work of Others
Dr. David Lavery
Furthering the Work of Others
Dr. David Lavery
When I learned that a contributor
to three of my books was
developing a book on Dexter, I
was able through my contacts
alone to secure contributions to
the book from television scholars
in four countries. The book has
now been published by I. B.
Tauris.
Furthering the Work of Others
Dr. David Lavery
For more information, visit David Lavery’s
homepage: http://davidlavery.net
Dr. David Lavery
Contact David via e-mail:
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